Signage

Because you can never have too much signage. The company, Takefuji, is a huge credit company said to have ties with the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate.

Kanamara Matsuri Penis Riders

Women on a giant phallus at the Kanamara fertility festival. This is Japan’s best festival, and it’s coming up on Sunday April 6th.

Video of the festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SggvPrkoJUI
Shrine homepage: http://tomuraya.co.jp/wakamiya.htm (Japanese only)

2-3-16 Daishi Eki-mae, Misaki-ku, Kanagawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Inside the grounds of Wakamiya Hachimangu.

To get there, take the Keikyu line from Shinagawa Station. Transfer to the Keikyu-Daishi Line at Keikyu Kawasaki Station and get out at Keikyu-Daishi. It takes about 45 minutes and costs 580 yen. It starts at 10:00 AM.

Bird Dropping Skin Cream

Uguisu no fun, or bush warbler droppings have been used as a skin cream and
whitener in Japan for hundreds of years